Installing CTPs in Lawson

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Here is a quick reference to Install CTPs in Lawson. Download and save CTP to LSF Server Extract .tar (unzip) on LSF server to folder (d:\patch\CTPXXXX) Log on LID as Lawson Change directory to extracted CTP location: cd d:\patch\CTPXXXXX) …

IP Designer Series – The Data Iterator Node

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The Data Iterator node can be used to loop through records.  One way to use this node is to loop through the lines of a TXT or CSV file so that the data can be manipulated and stored somewhere else, or used in Lawson programs.  Here is an…

IP Designer Series – The Trigger Node

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The IP Designer Trigger Node, located under the Control Menu Group, is used to trigger another IPA process or Service.  Once you drag the node to the design screen, the processes and services list will auto-populate in the node properties. …

IP Designer Series – The Wait Node

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The IP Designer Wait Node, located under the Control Menu Group, inserts a specified wait time into your Process.  The wait times can be units of days, hours, minutes, or seconds.  This can be used for approval flows, if you want approval…

Configure WebSphere profile to use a different version of Java

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There may be a time where you need to update your WebSphere profile to use a later version of Java.  One indication of this would be if you are installing an app in WebSphere, and you come across the error “The major.minor version '51.0'…

Increase Security Employee Search Limit in Lawson Portal

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While using Previous/Next on a record in Lawson portal, you may eventually stumble upon a pesky error message of: “Security search limit of X employees exceeded” (X being anywhere from 1-100+)  Commonly this could happen when restricting…

Ciber hands over the keys to Infor. What does it mean for customers?

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Ciber and Infor announced an agreement on March 20, 2017 to sell Ciber's Infor practice to Infor. This is the most significant event in recent years within Infor's Lawson client base as Ciber been serving the lion's share of the Lawson customer…

IP Designer Series – The System Command Node

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The Return Activity node in IP Designer is useful for running command line tools within a process.  You can run anything from the System Command node that could be ran in a Unix or DOS command prompt. The first step to using a System Command…

IP Designer Series – The Return Activity Node

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The Return Activity node in IP Designer is useful for stopping the flow when specified conditions are met, and returning information to the calling process, such as a trigger. In this example, we have an error connection between the file…

IP Designer Series – The Custom Activity Node

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The Custom Activity node in IP Designer is useful for implementing functionality that is not available in the “canned” IPA nodes. Infor delivers four Custom Activities with IPA. These are “Encoding”, “Assert”, “ComponentTest”,…